Egypt
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See the above page for more details and a photograph.
- Growing And Grinding
IHC An advert for an upcoming talk by Willeke Wendrich, but it contains some information about the Faiyum and is quite well timed given the above discussions about the risks to the archaeology of the Faiyum. The north shore of Lake Qarun in the Egyptian...
- Karanis Cemetery Survey Project
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Spending an entire field season roaming a cemetery and looking at bones may seem morbid to many, but to me it was a dream. Over the past several years, Willeke Wendrich, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and...
- More Re Ucla Field School In Egypt
UCLA -Archaeology Field Program Field school student Susie Joyner takes another video, this time meandering around the dig site in the ancient city of Karanis to capture footage of her fellow students digging. We get a look at their brightly colored digging...
- Egypt: An Inspector-in-training Moves From Theory To Field Work
UCLA: Archaeology Field Program Adel Saad Mondy, who has a degree in archaeology, is a new inspector with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the agency which issues permits to excavations. The Supreme Council of Antiquities arranged for Mondy and...
- Kelsey Museum Of Archaeology Newsletter Fall 2007
Kelsey Museum Newsletter Thanks to a post by Mia Rikala to the EEF email group for pointing me at a newsletter which had not come to my attention previously: the Kelsey Museum Newsletter. The most recent issue is the Spring 2007 publication. This and...
Egypt
Karanis target of 1st Archaeology Field for US Undergrads
Passionate about History
Further to Ben's post about inspector-in-training Adel Saad Mondy, who has been working with the UCLA team at Karanis in the Faiyum, here's another post about Karanis:
For the UCLA students, exploring the sprawling agricultural settlement that was Karanis and uncovering plant remains and animal bones from the fourth through sixth centuries is turning into the trip of a lifetime.
Just two weeks into the dig, the field school has made some new discoveries.
"Based on dates in Greek papyri previously found at Karanis, the city was thought to have been abandoned in the fourth century … but the section we are working on dates from the fourth to the sixth centuries, which expands the occupation of Karanis by approximately two centuries," Wendrich said. "It certainly was rural, but it was also a large town, in which the inhabitants, mostly small landowners, created a comfortable life for themselves."
There are more mysteries to uncover, she added.
See the above page for more details and a photograph.
- Growing And Grinding
IHC An advert for an upcoming talk by Willeke Wendrich, but it contains some information about the Faiyum and is quite well timed given the above discussions about the risks to the archaeology of the Faiyum. The north shore of Lake Qarun in the Egyptian...
- Karanis Cemetery Survey Project
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Spending an entire field season roaming a cemetery and looking at bones may seem morbid to many, but to me it was a dream. Over the past several years, Willeke Wendrich, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and...
- More Re Ucla Field School In Egypt
UCLA -Archaeology Field Program Field school student Susie Joyner takes another video, this time meandering around the dig site in the ancient city of Karanis to capture footage of her fellow students digging. We get a look at their brightly colored digging...
- Egypt: An Inspector-in-training Moves From Theory To Field Work
UCLA: Archaeology Field Program Adel Saad Mondy, who has a degree in archaeology, is a new inspector with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the agency which issues permits to excavations. The Supreme Council of Antiquities arranged for Mondy and...
- Kelsey Museum Of Archaeology Newsletter Fall 2007
Kelsey Museum Newsletter Thanks to a post by Mia Rikala to the EEF email group for pointing me at a newsletter which had not come to my attention previously: the Kelsey Museum Newsletter. The most recent issue is the Spring 2007 publication. This and...